Canteen

To dream of a canteen represents planning or preparation for the worst. Having a backup plan to restore comfort or confidence in case a troubling or terrible situation comes up.

To dream of drinking from a canteen may represents your attempt to regain composure when a situation has gotten more difficult than you expected. Feeling more pressure than you had hoped for. It may also reflect desperation. Using your last resources to deal a difficulty.

To dream of an empty canteen may reflect a sense of hopelessness or that you've tried everything you could without any success. A situation is just too difficult to get through.

Canyon

To dream of a canyon represents feelings of having a lot of space, freedom or options, but feeling overwhelmed or unsure on how to use or utilize it effectively. Feelings of insignificance and smallness, as well as feelings of being overwhelmed by the challenges of life.

Example: A woman dreamed of being in a canyon type area. In waking life she was looking for a new job and couldn't find one that was suitable. In this case the canyon might have reflected her feelings about the job market being so open with nothing suitable. Feelings about big enormous companies offering while feeling that couldn't do anything except move on.

Jolly Ranchers Candy

To dream of Jolly Ranchers candy represents feelings about enjoying taking your time listening to why something you'd like to happen will happen eventually without anything stopping it. Anticipation or taking pleasure in the idea that something you'd like to happen will eventually come true.

Litter-Garbage

To dream of litter (garbage) represents feelings of disregard for disorder, neglect, or the consequences of carelessness in some area of your life. Feelings of being annoyed that someone else was careless without concern for the consequences of their actions that requires to you "clean it up" or deal with it. Thoughts about the importance of taking responsibility for your actions, cleaning up after yourself, or addressing the messes that you have created in your life. A need for personal responsibility and accountability.

Negatively, dreaming about litter could represent feelings of being overwhelmed by disorder, neglect, or the consequences of carelessness in some area of your life. Perhaps you feel burdened by the carelessness of others or by the need to clean up after them. Frustration with a lack of order or respect in your personal space or community. Carelessness of enjoying yourself with complete disregard for the consequences while other people have to clean up or deal with it.

Example: A teenage boy dreamed of walking out of a building towards an expanse of garbage-littered sidewalk. In waking life, he felt that life was unfair living in a foreign country watching other children do things that he wasn't allowed to do while having to respect his religious missionary family. In this case, the garbage-littered cement may have reflected his feelings about other children getting to do things without caring about the consequences which he couldn't do because he had to respect his religious missionary family.

Breast Cancer

To dream of breast cancer represents feelings about the slow deterioration of your ability to respect yourself with passive authority or assumed power to control people without asserting yourself. The slow deterioration of passive assumed power to make people care about you or listen to you. The gradual decay of passive assumed power that feels it can only get worse or threaten to ruin your ability to matter or be important without asserting yourself. The ability to respect yourself with passive power or assumed authority being eroded by negative influences. Feeling that caring about people doesn't make people respect you with assumed authority anymore because people are ruining your life by never listening to you ever again.

Positively, dreaming about breast cancer may represent your awareness and proactive attitude towards identifying and addressing issues that are slowly affecting your passive assumed power or influence.

Negatively, dreaming about breast cancer could represent feelings of hopelessness, fear, or anxiety about the gradual loss of something essential to your sense of assumed power to make people listen to you without asking. A pervasive sense of decay or deterioration of passive authority in your life that feels unstoppable. An insidious depletion of passive assumed power and capability in your life. Situational decay that is affecting aspects of your life that once felt secure or unquestionable. Deep-seated fears or anxieties about losing your passive power, influence, and identity. Feeling that people don't have to respect your sense of assumed power and that it will only get worse. The gradual erosion of your confidence, happiness, and assumed authority to make people listen to you about unresolved issues or ongoing struggles. A perceived attack on your passive identity or ability to simply speak to make things happen. Feeling that nobody talks to you about doing anything for you ever again. Feeling that if people stop respecting your passive authority that it will begin to influence other people to do the same until it ruins you.

Alternatively, dreams of breast cancer may reflect your anxiety about breast cancer.

Example: A woman dreamed of a nurse telling her that she might have breast cancer. In waking life, she was experiencing migraines and nausea that would not go away after months. Prescription medicine didn't work and she didn't think there was any point in returning to the doctor. In this case, the breast cancer may have reflected hopelessness about the persistent health issues eroding her confidence that any medical professionals would ever listen to her health complaints ever again by simply asking for additional testing and that going back to the doctor would only make doctors lose more respect for her.

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Canadian Bacon

To dream of Canadian bacon represents excessive total self-gratification. It may also reflect a casual attitude to having something exactly the way you want it all the time.

Canadian bacon may be a sign that you are becoming bored, spoiled by , used to, or over-stimulated with pleasure.

Cancer

To dream of the disease cancer represents emotional or situational decay. An area of your life that slowly eats away at your well-being, happiness, or power. It can also reflect feelings of hopelessness, restrictions, or fundamental flaws. Feeling that a situation can only get worse or will spread to other areas of your life if you don't start taking action. Feeling that a situation is hopeless or can only get worse. Feeling that something eating away are you.

Example situations that could encourage a dream about cancer may be a difficult illness, financial problems, or a relationship that stifles you.

Alternatively, cancer can also reflect real life situations were cancer is a real possibility or someone you know is living with it.

Example: A man dreamed of having cancer. In waking life he was very depressed about his life and felt that life couldn't only get worse for him.

Example 2: A man dreamed of having lung cancer. In waking life he was experiencing anxiety about his habit of smoking cigarettes giving him cancer if he didn't quit.

Example 3: A man dreamed of seeing cancerous smoke. In waking life he was worried about the economic crisis.

Example 4: A man dreamed about a cancer club for children where the children were beginning to feel hopeless. In waking life he felt that his life was only getting worse and people who had previously inspired him couldn't inspire him any more.

Example 5: A woman dreamed of seeing someone with cancer. In waking life she felt that her marriage was slowly deteriorating.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of having cancer. In waking life she was experiencing her mental health slowly deteriorating.

Cannabis

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Canvas Shoes

To dream of a canvas shoes represents a casual attitude or approach to a situation. An approach to life or a situation that is laid back. Not taking anything too seriously or telling yourself that you'll just see how something goes.

Example: A man dreamed of wearing ugly light green canvas shoes. In waking life he was trying hard to respect someone he didn't like as he read through that person's research work. The canvas shoes reflected the casual attitude he was attempting to hold towards the person while being aware of himself not liking them.

Cotton Candy

To dream of cotton candy represents feelings about an experience of liking thinking about yourself having fun as much as you can while it's fleeting. Not wanting to stop noticing yourself having as much fun as possible while it's fleeting.

Negatively, cotton candy may represent overdoing liking thinking about yourself having fun as much as you can being made to last because it's fleeting. Dishonestly liking having as much fun as you can while other people don't like it. Sensitivity about running out of time while having the most fun possible. Clinging to fun that can�t last. Having as much fun as possible in a way that disregards reality, responsibility, or the feelings of others. Lighthearted moments without concern for long-term consequences.

To dream of a cotton candy machine represents the ability to repeatedly experience yourself having as much fun as you can whenever you want to. Repeatedly having as much fun as you can that's fleeting in a manner that's unfeeling about anything except doing it. Repeatedly needing to hide something or disregard other feelings in secret in order to have as much fun as possible.

Example: A woman dreamed of her ex-fiance and his female "best friend" eating cotton candy and playing games. The woman asked for a cotton candy machine. In waking life, she had left her ex-fiance due to his refusal to give up his inappropriate "best friend" relationship with a woman. In this case, the cotton candy may have reflected her feelings about her ex-fiance and his female "best friend" inappropriately having as much fun as they could behind her back without thinking it was a problem when it was. It may have also reflected a sense of scheduled time limits for the inappropriate fun.

Garbage

To dream of garbage represents thoughts, feelings, habits, or life situations that are unwanted. Garbage points to things in your life that are unproductive, or no longer needed to be happy. A belief or situation isn't helpful to you anymore. Unwanted emotional problems, unwanted health problems, unwanted relationships.

Negatively, dreaming about garbage may be sign that you are putting to much "crap' from other people. Feeling that you are unwanted or not respected. Being treated like a piece of garbage. Feeling surrounded by worthless options or choices. A low opinion of someone. Waking life situations where you may be experiencing an appalling conditions. Feeling that something is beneath you.

To dream of throwing something in the garbage represents feelings about beliefs, relationships, or situations that are unwanted. Negatively, it may reflect a lack of respect for other people's feelings, time, or property. Not valuing other people enough. Wasting your own power or resources in hasty overly emotional moments.

To dream of cleaning up garbage may reflect problem solving or fixing a situation that you feel is beneath you. Addressing bad habits.

Example: A young girl dreamed of someone throwing her pony in the garbage. In waking life she felt that her parents divorce was destroying her relationship with her father who liked to spend quality time with her.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of killing and throwing the dead body of his enemy in the garbage. In waking life he had gotten his first serious girlfriend and lost his virginity. The garbage scene may have symbolized his growing confidence allowing him to stop lying about having already lost his virginity to look good to friends. Metaphorically discarding his jealousy and need to be dishonest to feel respected by his friends.

Example 3: A young woman dreamed of throwing a body in the garbage. In waking life she felt that her relationship with her boyfriend was over and wanted to be rid of him from her life.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of police telling her that a person was a piece of garbage. In waking life she was being told by her jealous boyfriend not to meet someone. The statement about the person being a piece of garbage may have reflected the boyfriends low opinion of the person she planned to meet.

Example 5: A man dreamed of sitting on a garbage can like a homeless beggar and then wearing a sign around his neck that said "I make room for trash if need be." In waking life he was a Jewish man living in Nazi Germany with the new race laws enacted. As an assimilated Jew with the new laws he may have felt worthless or like a "piece of worthless trash" due to how he was being so easily discriminated against.

Example 6: A woman dreamed of seeing babies in a trash can. In waking life she was in the process of getting a divorce that ended future plans with her husband.

Garbage Bags

To dream of garbage bags represents thoughts, memories, habits, or life situations that you are choosing to be careful about moving on from. The process of letting go of unwanted or unnecessary psychological or emotional baggage that may be weighing you down while being careful to never think about those issues again. Something unproductive, or undesirable is being removed or discontinued. A conscious effort to let go of the past or unwanted burdens. A fresh start, a clean slate, and the opportunity for personal transformation. Cleansing your mind and emotions of past issues and moving forward with a lighter psychological load.

To dream of garbage bags being used to carry things instead of garbage represents feelings about dealing with or managing aspects of your life in a way that is temporary, unconventional, or makeshift. Dealing with or managing aspects of your life in a way that fools other people that you are choosing to move on from them.

The contents of the garbage bag could provide further clues about the specific emotions, memories, or aspects of yourself that you are trying to discard.

Are you filling it, emptying it, or simply observing it? Your actions in the dream could reflect your level of engagement with the process of letting go.

Example: A man dreamed of seeing full garbage bags being carried out of his basement and placed on the sidewalk in front of his house. In waking life, he had processed and understood a lot of negativity from his past while being careful to maintain his new perspective not thinking of them again to help himself move on. In this case, the garbage bags may have reflected his efforts to consciously and carefully move on from negative thoughts and bad memories by choosing to never think about them in the same manner ever again.

Garbage Man

To dream of a garbage man represents awareness of yourself never caring about something ever again. A final decision to completely rid yourself of something. Feeling good noticing something is finally over.

Negatively, a garbage man may represent feelings of being pressured to make a final decision remove something from your life that you may not be fully ready to let go of. Realizing that you have made a hasty decision to be rid of something from your life.

Garbage Truck

To dream of a garbage truck represents decisions or a direction in life that allows you to always not have to notice negativity. A choice or new method of thinking that always spares you of a problem.

Example: A young man dreamed of killing a childhood enemy and sticking his body in the back of a garbage truck. In waking life he was experiencing hair loss due to an illness and feared embarrassment. He had also just purchased a hat to hide his problem. The garbage truck represent his new hat being a way to always avoid the embarrassment of his hair loss problem.

Gummy Bears Candy

To dream of a gummy bears candy represents an experience or choice that enjoys nothing getting back at you for using your imagination to think about being shared with without a problem like it's completely safe when sharing usually doesn't happen.

Negatively, gummy bears candy in a dream may represent overdoing accepting never confronting any people or situations that are terrible about never sharing with you.

The symbolism is based on bears being a symbol for being aggressive about not sharing.

Example: A girl dreamed of a green gummy bear. In waking life, she met a guy on the internet who lived in another US state. She enjoyed talking to the guy about a potential arranged marriage for the whole day. She didn't want to stop. She was also jealous that her sister would speak to any guy she spoke to steal their attention away from her. In this case, the green gummy bear candy may have reflected her enjoyment and comfort in indulging her imagination regarding a potential arranged marriage with the guy she met online because her sister would usually talk to guys she spoke to steal (not sharing) their attention away.